It used to bother me to see odd people leapfrog parking meters and shout every day is Halloween until

My wife likes to garden. She’s crazy about roses, lilies and daisies. She says I should get out in the garden and weed.

In the fourth grade too many moons ago a reassuring teacher looked over my shoulder and said not to worry about

I was warm and toasty, curled up, napping in amniotic fluid, without a worry when suddenly

Although it snowed a little Wedne… Jane’s hyacinths are blooming. And in the yard she saw this morni… 50 robins hopping in the sun. Some flew in couples into trees

Ralph never planned on dying but when he did, he was swept away like a child’s kite blown astray. When he arrived at his destination… he heard angels singing, harps pla…

I’ll have to ask some preacher what if he comes when it’s inconvenient when I’m bowling or lifting a stein of lager

There are pockets of them everywhere, quiet and discreet. Usually they meet once a week

The alarm clock screams at 5 a.m. and I get up to attend a funeral 50 miles away, a long drive back to a corner of Chicago once rife with corned beef and cabbage but

When you have an hour to live what matters then is Christ in a pyx in the vest pocket

Trumpelstiltskin is a fairy tale not written by the Brothers Grimm… It’s written every day by Fox and… America hears it every hour and half the nation loves it

The poor are hungry in America. Their numbers would fill stadiums throughout this prosperous land. And feral cats are running wild, eating songbirds in our yards,

He publishes poems by writers who find no publishers elsewhere. They suffer rejection and he gives them hope.

The speaker is Phil Burns, owner of the brokerage firm that Owen Mitchell has had money invested with for years. Owen’s not rich and not poor. He just prefers the action of the stock ma...